Show CASt CASE CAStI CASEI I OF CASON IDs Conduct In Iii y t ONEY FROM EO Tm ThE FACTIONS With Aston Astonishing Cheerfulness T Declares That He Was Paid 1500 Par For Af After tor Giving Evi Evidence dence den e Before Defore Montana Supreme Court CO Against In Int the Oase O Preacher r W Warren arren Boasts of ms Fighting Qualities e I f Jan Ian M The e hearing ere tife tilo senate committee t on I aL ia hi I the ease ease of Sen Son Senator ator dark I of l 3 a developed four nw witnesses waC asid d e to a fin finI I tt Uie t e of r the accountant Roe r Who Mil li been be on the stand Mend W new w witnesses were weft co ney Cooney T F E Butler BatIS a JN e W who was WM dt 1 ot DC the Montana house of rep tives and d a lawyer laYu named Ca Cason son 04 two Iwo last le named med testified to many proceeding which lent lenti i Ii to t their Ir state statements I ments I mE E Rector Ree tor was again in on the sd ht M the Ut beginning b of the days He If said 4 that all an he be did in Ins s eart g lOO rooms was reported to the authorities and volunteered in inthis this tans the statement that in inthe Inthe the ease case of every man purchased ed it was WIE to report to Mr Clark Hs He hd ht not ROt made such reports him himself self elt being only a private and not nota n a such terms of familiarity with the big pins guns guns as an to Justify his approach approachIng approachIng I Ing lag them He Ho repeated the ement 4 1 14 4 4 4 I j made In la his ta examination e in ch f that ta in th the Warren hot hate b te had hadi i been because e there was no I I passage from front that build 7 io tile the a legislative ve hall hail contending 1 seriously that Mr Clarks managers uirt such a passage sap Once when f I i Senator Faulkner tried to check the thet 4 lc It t his its voluntary testimony te mony he be 4 replied f 4 Wanted Want Kl Truth I 1 want to get oat the whole truth 4 1 I am not interested in hi suppressing ing part 4 of it a ee y yea tt are an anI 4 I Mr out the fact tact that to coming e to Washing T I to to tea Mr Ir Rooter Hector had been engaged as asan asan an expert i on OR Ute the books boob of the Hen I 7 Mercantile company aa ae a stock Holder colder 4 Is Ia 1 Mr Daly connected with that company r sad asked Mr r Faulkner I II A I t I 1 dont know 1010 the witness replied I k I was only after an the cashier ca and i II bookkeeper I Mr Kr testified as to Mr Davidson Da bringing eY over from and leaving it in his charge for Mr Steele he lie Being then employed by b byL L Davidson r I dont remember the te time when 7 IM he brought it It be he said eald The type typewriter typewriter writer and I looked at R tt We were 4 both awful glad to see it as ILl the type te i writer had not been paid for tor four tour months month and aDd I had bad not a cent Do 0 yo you not know that Davidson had mc in the bank baak Mr Faulkner asked uNo No I wee was the reply There were e tots Jots of others that did not know It Money Floating About Davidson had bad he be said left the money L with him for Steele in an open en envelope aad d he and ud th the typewriter had bad looked at It lt aster after Mr Davidson hud had left It Money Ko had been thus brought to i J the M room by Davidson and left for Steele on three different occasions just before the meeting of the legislature 4 Rector R or said he be did not know what j sum Om was 88 brought in by SOn at 11 any time I 1 onty only know he Be said mid I t that we suddenly accumulated a of mon v Be He did not know kow LOW what was done with it It IL Ho He did know however that Powell had be Ti n sent O nt out to 4 1 get et a member of the legislature who whop I 1 i p V oa 81 pug 9 1 4 f CASON Continued from pege L 1 fw j to have and after returning i he ho had said that he lie had a hard trip but that it was all 11 right In an another another other instance Black had said he had landed his nan fish inside of an hour hourI I The Tha witness said that if there were j nelt in his testimony it was because bad frt frightened him I so He said that this re remark mark was sa on ot the side and not under oath oathS S Inclined to Joke When pressed to know what part of tile the testimony was under oath and what was not Rector re plied piled I am am just watching you to wink the other ether eye when you want to anything This remark brought out a reproof by Senator Chandler and a side re remark math mark by Senator Hoar that the ing S of f Joke waa wais the prerogative ot ci the chairmen chairman The witness id he had bad not told anyone ff If he was vae not paid money by bythe the tha dark clerk people he ho would testify ae ss aee he e had done dene of that Mr Hennessy of Batte was waa to pay him several hun bun dred Mr B I eter was excused at 1135 dock and nd the Rev Rv B B E H Warren who was wan chaplain of the Montana house of f m hi the last va as callad Mr related the details of two im he bad hsei with Senator ClArk the tha legislature was as in sea ses session seaon sion on and arsi ju iu t evious to the election of Mr dark He e said he had been a of Mr that he had rend read the his reports that he was using corrupt rnea mean to secure his and that he lie had called upon him for the purpose of himself Clark Was Confident 1 I asked the senator said the wit witness witness ness the prospect of election were Mr that they were H right I be elected Clark said He The assuredly but bat said be did not went want the election until he could get a majority of the Democrats He could be said the t e of the Re i 1 I be elected f hf time but buthe buthe he did ot want the election that way Claric added that the bere were to hint at the ra e of one or orI twos day I en if fee the B i vote He lie he did didi I i naked hint W sure cure of all j edhem to w he e Mined that there be s tE sr you defections ad adi dins dg aW arranged for I then i bL tarth t h iii t a Democratic VT f le name of a member i it t the would support you I IH j i H does he want Clark eake L LT T t I think I replied a moment and said I do anything like that but butI butI I have tt It fixed fined He did not how however ever say w would uld fix it P Was Uneasy r he had seen Clark the neat in tie the lobby of the ho hotel hot tel t tl lark Clark had asked him where lil his TOO soak w was He had reviled that he 1 had not Dot semi seen the member when Irk e rr Tell ll him I want j today Coz j her be said sald CIak expressed ed j ae bein being weary of the proceed proceedings lugs ings and aad said oai it must come to a wm con cht 4 J i further Warr be had not seen the mem member member ber in fi with this thi request bat bt that he went to see Clark had bed the member say jokingly e d vote for that gentleman ft tn On Warren said be he had resigned his ministry in the Methodist church after giving his tea tes bore te Montana supreme court bec gf ie numerous scan that were put in circa circulation lation about hM He Be said in renly to previous to going to i I Helena hii hE had hOd had bad a at Sweet SweetGrass sweetGrass Grass GrassIs Is a Hitting Fighting Preacher A man called me a toad bei name he be said and I knocked him down and gave hint him a thrashing Relating the connected with ah his retirement from the Helena church ministry he said that many of his church members were Supporters of Clark Ck axed and had been much incensed at athis athis his course They had also failed to pay his salary Is it not a fact asked Mr Faulk Faulkner ncr ner that you were charred charged by mom mem members bers beis of et your congregation with smiles embezzlement and fornication Warren replied in the negative say big ine there had bed been no official charges He proceeded to say that the stories circulated after he had given his testimony charged him with drun drunkenness drunkenness kenness embezzlement and immoral immorality ImmoralIty ity Does Not Pear Investigation In reply to further questions he said he had bud not hot resigned to avoid an investigation I ws een sot not afraid of an in investigation he said but I felt fert indig ludig nant Indeed I expert expect to have an in j yeta l a very warm one You Yen have not assaulted any one as you did at Sweet No sir am m liable to do de so in be beto befu to fu this te mover over overl l also brought out the fact that during his conversation with Clark Wa i had bad told him that his church was in iu a ad way that the latter had promised a contribution for forK forit K it as soon us the senatorial contest was ended and that Clark had sent him a cheek check for which he toad lied aporo to the payment of his own sal my ry because the church was behind with wilt him He added however that he be had bad re referred thle transaction to the presiding elder The witness wit eec was then released and a recess taken Went Over to Clark H a Cooney a member of the Montana Monta legislature from Cascade county said sei the entire e Cascade dele delegation gallon gation had been bee elected with the under understanding understanding standing that they should support Mr Conrad Toward the tite close tf Of the hal bal balloting two iwo of its Gil Gillette Gillette lette and Flynn changed from Conrad to Clark He said tb Jt E C Butler who had at atone one time been connected with a news newspaper newspaper paper in Marcus Daly was Inter eted proposed that be vote for Mr Clark saying that if he be would do 4 so Mr Clark would rehabilitate the Butte Miner him and Mr Butler practical I I thai charge of it at t 2500 a year each i ifor i ifor for five years Later Iter Mr Butler had urged him to go with him to Charley dark clark and Ox fix the matter up He had not accepted because he had voted for foi Conrad to a finish He also said that another member of th the legis legislature legislature lature had afterwards changed his vote from Conrad to Clark and told him that he e understood the Clark peo people pie were putting money in the theof hands of third parties to be paid for votes that such methods would not get him but that if he be should find a letter in a room with a large sum of money in it i it would be bard band to get away from haL Newspaper Proposition Mr Butter Butler testified when called to the conversation which Mr Cooney had bad related saying that be he had taken the matter mattel up with Mr Cooney tn In conner connection tion with a proposition he had received from Ross Clark brother of the san sen senator sanator ator to take the business management of the Miner He said he had seen Mr Cooney at the request of Charley Clark the senators son but that Mr Cooney had declined to enter into the negotiation Z T 1 Canon Cason an attorney at Butte told an interesting story not net only of his participation in the election of Mr Clark but his hie wanderings since He first told how bow he be had been sent for to toc c me to Helena to use his influence with Representative Mar eyes of Cue Cus Custer I ter county and that when he went j there he saw Senator Clark who told 1 him he lie would like to have him see Marcyes and with Aim hua and that j Marcyes had not been approached that j service being left to him him Cason as ashe ashe he could handle him better tetter Ten Thousand IFor or a Vote He authorized me to say to him that he would pay him for his vote for him Clark for the United States senate said the witness adding He also said to me that Mr Wellcome wad wadi handling his funds and would me with expense money Mr Clark also said the witness went on Since Whiteside has betrayed us I have very little confidence in j and would like to have you handle him very carefully Continuing Sir Mr Cason said he had seen Mr Wellcome who had given hii 50 for expanses and that afterwards he had seen Mr Marcyes several times and after satisfying himself that Mar i eyes would vote for Clark had so re reported reported ported to him He had not however made any suggestion of a money con consideration to Mr Marcyes Afterward Marcyes Had voted for Clark and on Feb 4 he had received a letter from Mr Clark enclosing a cheek check for for professional services This letter latter was sus produced and identified fled fied and Mr said that the only services he had rendered Mr Clark Clarki were In connection with the senatorial race S i Struck With Sorrow i He had bad testified before the grand jury in the Wellcome disbarment case came and after doing ao so hail had felt sorry for forthe forthe the part he had taken in that case cane j fueling that he did not want to come cometo i ito to Washington to testify against Mr i Clark who had bad done him favors His stats state of mind had been communicated to J B Root a law partner of Mr who had sent for him and i asked him t tp avoid a subpoena to Washington He Cason fOnson had replied that ha ho would be glad to do so and that he would give any assurance of j hij leti good faith providing no use should be made of the document ex en to show it t to Mr Mi Clark I He then told how air Mr Root had pro pre prepared pared a letter which he the witness I had copied and signed in which he had s Jd there thero was no truth Jn n any anything I thing he had to in the Well Wellcome Wellcome come case This was put in strong language and in the letter he was made to dwell upon the disgrace he be had brought upon himself by the part parthe parthe he had bad taken in the matter To Get Out of Country In return for or this letter Root had given him 0 with which to get gat out of the country Mr Root Hoot promising to hold the th letter as sacred And only to tomake tomake make i 11 public in ones case he be Canon Cason I should como to Washington He had then ne to Baker aker City Ore COlTS corre corresponding spending from there with Mr Root under the name of G Z Taylor He had not been there long i When he S saw his recantation in the newspapers Soon afterwards he had received a a summons to come to Wash Washington Washington ington and had responded arriving to todar j day dar only before he went ea oil j the stand j I On Mr Cason Onson was asked to and did identify a letter he ho had written to Albert G Hall Hail of Washington a of Semi Sen Senator ator Clark who had bad originally intro introduced introduced him to the senator This letter was dated f Feb eb 4 last in in which he had thanked Mr Hall in profuse terms torme for i his introduction to Mr Clark and spoke of that gentleman in most moat eulogistic as one of the brainy men of j the great northwest who would to doubt take high rank in the United States Stat senate Said Charges Were False He had also referred to the charges of bribery in connection with Mr Clarks election and pronounced them falsa falge saying he ho had been on the ground round and that no more more honorable contest for the senate was ever evor waged even In New England states than that in which Mr Clark had bad made the fight to a finish If there had been any crookedness it was vas on the other side Replying to questions he said it was partly true and false He had never seen any bribery his opinion was that bribery was committed Still this was wasa wasP a friendly letter to Clarks inlaw and it would not have been wise to make such a charge to him Mr Canon Cason identified the recanting letter he had given to air Ir Root Boot It covered three pages of foolscap and was wao read by the witness amid roars of i laughter by all present including the witness himself This laughter being at the abject character or the language used use Knew It Was a Lie LieDo LieDo Do you pretend to say that when you wrote that letter you knew it was not true said Mr Faulkner Why certainly responded the wit witness ness Then you confess here to having written and signed three pages cf of lies Mas Masin in that letter said Mr Faulkner In his reply the witness the second unique definition of a lie that the hearing has brought brough out iut No I do not he I con confess fees fess to writing the lette but I dont think any statement is ever a He lie which is made with the understanding that It Is |